Month: February 2016

SP16: INFO-200 Sec 10 – Inf. Comm – Blog Post #3 Instagram Users (Instagrammers) are an active and varied community, though they skew to the younger side. Over half (55%) of all internet users in the 18-29 range are registered for the service, according to Pew Research. Still a large chunk, 28% of internet users in […]

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Order by David Weinberger (2007) is a call to arms in defense of the seeming chaos that is the digital world. Weinberger describes the first, second, and third order of classifications that have evolved in the field of information science. The benefits of the third, digital […]

SP16: INFO-200 Sec 10 – Inf. Comm – Blog Post #2 In 1945, Vannevar Bush describes an advanced form of photography and note taking: One can now picture a future investigator in his laboratory. His hands are free, and he is not anchored. As he moves about and observes, he photographs and comments. Time is automatically […]

H.G. Wells predicted a “Permanent World Encyclopedia” in 1937: As the core of such an institution would be a world synthesis of bibliography and documentation with the indexed archives of the world. A great number of workers would be engaged perpetually in perfecting this index of human knowledge and keeping it up to date. It’s […]